Labor and Employment Legislation

SENATE FILE 2121 Child Labor - Motor Vehicle Cleaning - VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR

SENATE FILE 2190 Workers' Compensation - Miscellaneous Changes - VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR

HOUSE FILE 2344 Unemployment Benefits Contested Case Hearing Records - Retention

Related Legislation

SENATE FILE 2048 Project Labor Agreements Prohibited - VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR

SENATE FILE 2231 Single Contact Repository - Hospital Access to Current and Prospective Employee Records

SENATE FILE 2275 Substantive Code Corrections

HOUSE FILE 2152 Volunteer Emergency Services Provider Death Benefits

HOUSE FILE 2532 Public Retirement Systems

HOUSE FILE 2549 Primary and Secondary Education - Employee Standards, Career Development, Assessment, and Remuneration

HOUSE FILE 2625 Miscellaneous Appropriations, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Provisions - Fiscal Year 2001-2002 - SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION

HOUSE FILE 2627 Miscellaneous Appropriations, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Provisions - 2002-2003 and Prior Fiscal Years - SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION

This bill would have amended the child labor laws to permit a child under the age of 18 to use detergents, cleaners and protectants in employment involving motor vehicle cleaning, washing and polishing if the child was provided with and used personal protective equipment as needed and if the child was not employed or permitted to combine the chemicals used other than to dilute them with water. The bill would have taken effect upon enactment.

This bill would have made the following changes to the state's Workers' Compensation Law:

• Provided that an overpayment to an employee would not be created when a subsequent injury to an employee results in compensation based on a finding of functional loss or industrial disability that is less than the compensation the employee had previously received for an earlier injury.
• Provided that an employer's liability for workers' compensation benefits for a permanent partial disability would be reduced to the extent that a portion of the resulting disability preexisted the work-related injury with the same employer, or had already been compensated for under workers' compensation.
• Provided that a "day of incapacity to work" meant eight work hours, which could be accumulated over more than one day toward meeting the three-day incapacity to work threshold.
• Eliminated the requirement that a party who wished to enforce a workers' compensation award initially made by the Workers' Compensation Division must present a certified copy of the order or decision to the district court.
• Provided that confidential information filed with the Workers' Compensation Commissioner that would allow the ascertainment of the identity of an injured employee or an injured employee's dependent must be kept confidential and not disclosed except under limited circumstances.

This Act requires the Department of Workforce Development to retain unemployment insurance contested case hearing tape recordings for two years from the date of decision of the administrative law judge rather than five years from the date of decision as required by Code Chapter 17A.

SENATE FILE 2048 - Project Labor Agreements Prohibited - VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR
SEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
   This bill would have prohibited the disbursement of moneys from the Vision Iowa Fund to any public contracting entity that requires certain labor-related agreements for a public works project.

SENATE FILE 2231 - Single Contact Repository - Hospital Access to Current and Prospective Employee Records
SEE HEALTH & SAFETY.
   This Act allows hospitals licensed under Code Chapter 135B to have access to abuse registries for purposes of checking persons employed or being considered for employment.

SENATE FILE 2275 - Substantive Code Corrections
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act contains statutory corrections that adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, delete temporary language, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, update ongoing provisions, or remove ambiguities. Changes made include clarifying language relating to meetings of members of a regional workforce development advisory board; clarifying language relating to the investigation of occupational diseases and language relating to obtaining special variances from occupational safety and health standards; correcting language relating to the determination of eligibility of special service members for disability benefits under the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System chapter; elimination of a milk tester's license application examination requirement; correcting language relating to the confidentiality of reports which include the identity of infected persons; clarifying language regarding submission of information pertaining to continuing education program attendance by optometrists; clarifying language relating to hearing aid dispensers; clarifying the description of the combined requirements for reporters of child and dependent adult abuse; correcting several references to the certification of water treatment operators by the Director of the Department of Natural Resources; clarifying provisions relating to the regulation of accounting practitioners; clarifying language relating to the appointment and removal of local public defenders and local public defender office staff; and technical changes in language describing the compensation of court-appointed attorneys in juvenile matters, court-appointed attorney fees, and the expenses of a public defender.

HOUSE FILE 2152 - Volunteer Emergency Services Provider Death Benefits
SEE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
   This Act eliminates the prospective repeal of the volunteer emergency services provider death benefit and adds reserve peace officers to those individuals covered by the benefit. The Act takes effect April 5, 2002.

HOUSE FILE 2532 - Public Retirement Systems
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act makes numerous changes pertaining to public retirement systems, including the Public Safety Peace Officers' Retirement, Accident, and Disability System (PORS, Code Chapter 97A), the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System (IPERS, Code Chapter 97B), the Statewide Fire and Police Retirement System (Code Chapter 411), and the Judicial Retirement System.

HOUSE FILE 2549 - Primary and Secondary Education - Employee Standards, Career Development, Assessment, and Remuneration
SEE EDUCATION.
   This Act makes a number of changes related to the Student Achievement and Teacher Quality Program established in 2001 under Code Chapter 284. The Act also permits a board of directors of a school district to offer an early retirement program to employees, but only allows the board to include in the district management levy the costs of offering the program to employees between the ages of 55 and 65. The Act strikes language mandating that the employees participating in the program apply for a retirement allowance under the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System or the school district's pension and annuity retirement system, and replaces it with language that permits the employee to apply for a retirement allowance.

HOUSE FILE 2625 - Miscellaneous Appropriations, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Provisions - Fiscal Year 2001-2002 - SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
SEE APPROPRIATIONS.
   This Act addresses public funding provisions and related matters by making, transferring and reducing appropriations in order to balance the State General Fund budget for FY 2001-2002. The Act affects state employee furlough requirements, state employee workers' compensation funding, and state employee health insurance reserves and extends the incentive program for state employees who separate from employment.

HOUSE FILE 2627 - Miscellaneous Appropriations, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Provisions - 2002-2003 and Prior Fiscal Years - SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
SEE APPROPRIATIONS.
   This Act provides FY 2002-2003 appropriations from the General Fund of the State to the executive and judicial branches of state government, reduces or limits standing appropriations, and transfers appropriations. The Act is organized into divisions corresponding to the General Assembly's joint appropriations subcommittees and includes appropriations for the departments of Economic Development and Workforce Development, as well as addressing specific programs and funds directed to labor and employment.